HBO and the NFL have narrowed down the HARD KNOCKS teams to Bears, Giants, Steelers

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What season did you watch? I have watched almost every season and recall nothing that fits your description of the show.

Ok, I was being a tad dramatic with the towels and such, to make my point. Shoot me.

FWIW, I watched a Ravens episode, one from the first Dallas show, one from last year's Bengals, and the Miami one a year before, when Chad Johnson was humiliated even more than he embarrassed himself, due to his head butting of his wife. Nice.

I said "globally", which means international. And I am one of the "displaced fan in a different state", so, no, I didn't forget that.

Apologies overlooked that for the premise of your argument.
Fact is that regardless of who is on there the ratings are gonna spike, even if it was the same team as last year or whatever year last it aired. I only watched two episodes myself, the one with chad ocho and the one where the bengals let go a lineman other than that it didn't strike my interest, but if you put my team on there then I might be tempted to watch. It's those fans the ones like me that will spike that rating.

[QUOTE=Morehead State;1146995]I'm speaking more as a general philosophy. If the owners, through their charter, agree that Hard Knocks is a desired broadcast to promote the league, even if Mr. Mara stood in dissent, doesn't he have an obligation to participate when his turn comes?

It's like when Jerry Jones said that he would never allow his team to waste a home game on a London game. He could be overruled by the appropriate majority.

Why is this different?[/QUOTE

How can the league force a team to appear on Hard Knocks against their will? I thought HBO brought the idea to the NFL and teams needed to get permission from the league to even appear on it. If I'm wrong tell me because I sincerely don't know the particulars.
It never appeared to me that teams were "taking turns" being on it. I always thought teams interested in being on Hard Knocks submitted their names to HBO for consideration. Seems too random a list of teams that were featured already for them to be taking turns.

Sights and Sounds does not go into meeting rooms, classrooms, and coach conferences

I meant in terms of actually approaching the players while they're working. The Hard Knocks crew tries to stay in the background. But yeah, I fired a bit of a blank with that one.

Originally Posted by bigblue58

How can the league force a team to appear on Hard Knocks against their will? I thought HBO brought the idea to the NFL and teams needed to get permission from the league to even appear on it. If I'm wrong tell me because I sincerely don't know the particulars.
It never appeared to me that teams were "taking turns" being on it. I always thought teams interested in being on Hard Knocks submitted their names to HBO for consideration. Seems too random a list of teams that were featured already for them to be taking turns.

Ok, I was being a tad dramatic with the towels and such, to make my point. Shoot me.

FWIW, I watched a Ravens episode, one from the first Dallas show, one from last year's Bengals, and the Miami one a year before, when Chad Johnson was humiliated even more than he embarrassed himself, due to his head butting of his wife. Nice.

then when they came to film the Jets I learned that the son of an old friend was in the film crew.... I never went to a shoot obviously .... but I did learn that they would re shoot scenes

one in particular was a meeting between Rex and Mike T. ....... they shot it and the sun started glaring through the window ... so they had them have the same conversation again.... when they did ..... a light or something fell... so they had them have the same conversation a third time....

I just can't get down with stuff like that ... I cannot take it seriously

I also can see Coughlin telling them to go **** themselves when being asked to have the same conversation again

then when they came to film the Jets I learned that the son of an old friend was in the film crew.... I never went to a shoot obviously .... but I did learn that they would re shoot scenes

one in particular was a meeting between Rex and Mike T. ....... they shot it and the sun started glaring through the window ... so they had them have the same conversation again.... when they did ..... a light or something fell... so they had them have the same conversation a third time....

I just can't get down with stuff like that ... I cannot take it seriously

I also can see Coughlin telling them to go **** themselves when being asked to have the same conversation again

Well as long as they filmed TC telling them to **** off......that would be great.